VMFS recovery - how do you proceed?

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Published on 2009-12-28T09:51:02Z Indexed on 2010/03/25 4:03 UTC
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The more I look into ESX the more often i have to handle cases where the partition table of a disk with a VMFS volume gets corrupted. The reasons for this can be

* idiot user
* failed update
* power failure
* ....

I guess you guys must already have something like a usual procedure on how to work through this cases.

I am especially interested in a straight fast way to find out if the VMFS volume itself is corrupted beyond repair.

So far I use very time consuming attempts with scans with Testdisk and similar tools. Do you have better / faster ways ?

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